Friday, June 29, 2012

The WebGL ecosystem

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After a couple of recent discussions and some further reading; two diagrams have provided some great insight into WebGL as it relates to the...

Mozilla Ignite + WebGL: Introduction

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Over the last two weeks I have invested considerable time reading about, talking with people, and watching the occasional youtube video on...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Learning in the Open

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Learning in the open; Koh Lanta, Thailand. People who follow this blog know I am a strong believer in open education, self-directed life...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Open Badges Step 0.3: A first look at open badges JSON

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In this screencast I take a first look at the json message for issuing a badge. Given the open badges dependency on messaging this is the fi...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Open Badges Step 0.2: Do a whole lot more reading

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In this screencast I look at some of the technical resources available for introducing someone to the open badges infrastructure (OBI). The...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Open Badges Step 0.1: Do a whole lot of reading

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In this screencast I look at the resources available for introducing someone to the open badges infrastructure (OBI). The screencast is a pa...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Screencasting guildelines

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I've always though the strength of screencasts was in their storytelling qualities. And a few searches on the keywords "screenca...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Open Badges Step by Step Screencasts

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I'm developing a set of screen casts that are going to be a companion to the step by step guide I am putting together on the Mozilla wi...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Youth Informal

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I get flipped out by the idea that there is so much interest in the Youth Informal partner type for the open badges issuer . Having alternat...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Ignite Learning labs

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I need to start investigating a number of technologies for the Mozilla Ignite challenge... the eight technologies I will be looking at i...
Friday, June 08, 2012

Open Badges for a Wikiversity course

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This post describes implementing Open Badges within a Wikiversity course. It takes a very simple approach by issuing the badges manually....
Thursday, June 07, 2012

Three point lighting for video capture

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I have the need to capture the talking heads in a video conference session. I need to capture each talking heads video stream and save it to...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

Open Badges Evidence

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What started as my exploration of the open badges displayer hack by David Wiley, ended up deepening my understanding of the assertion jso...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Open Education Conference 2012

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Part of my learning journey in developing Agile Learner Design (ALD) is to engage others in my personal learning network. What a better way...

Martial Arts Badge Systems Design

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Jiu Jitsu Belt Ranking System I'm still enamored by the martial arts belt coloring as a reference for badge colors. It already comes...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Making a badge

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With my next step of implementing the OBI I needed to create my own badge. I wanted it to be original (make it myself), follow my badge co...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Carla Casilli's excellent troika of posts

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This troika of posts from Carla Casilli is a must read for everyone wrapping the heads around designing open badge systems. I know these thr...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

A badge taxonomy

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I'm now to the point where I need to create sample code for the badges step-by-step . For my testing and sample code there is a minimum ...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Open Badges: Step-by-Step

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Over the last few weeks I have had the pleasure and opportunity to speak to a number of people regarding how best to onboard people to imple...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Open Badges: What I've learned so far

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Over the last couple of weeks I've begun to immerse myself in the Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) with two main goals; Have the techn...